These 12 managers signed up for 2016 Fantasy Baseball. What happened next will shock you!

I hope we can get a manager for it!

My keepers, as of now (submitted to the site as well):
Paul Goldschmidt (28)
Kenley Jansen (28)
Bryce Harper (23)
Nolan Arenado (24)
Byron Buxton (22)

(note: may change Buxton to Anthony Rendon, will let thread & yahoo know if I change my mind before Mar 20)

ya, I'm still working on a justification for keeping Heyward instead of Sano, myself.

Oh and assuming I don't come up with a name that amuses me more, I am now known as HOMERBAiLi (Demo)

And also, I keep a spreadsheet every year where I tirelessly and shamelessly track the adds, drops, and trades in this fantasy league to keep an eye on who's a keeper potential. I'll share that sheet below!

Quick instructions:
- Probably save a copy, I'm not sure if you can filter if you don't
- Filter by "Last Team" -> your own team
- Filter by "Keeper" -> no blanks

Tada! it shows you the guys you are eligible to keep. Anyone else was either dropped (date of drop shows up) or wasn't drafted if not on that list. The ages are probably about 95% correct, so double-check the math on those.

The Great Keeperable List of 2016 VORPed

Hats Off To Bryce Harper? xp

as you recall last season after my championship run i chose not to return but i have CHANGED MY MIND

LINCECUMLORDS

tentatively keeping:

Xander Bogaerts (<27)
Sonny Gray (<27)
A.J. Pollock (27-29)
Corey Kluber (27-29)
Starling Marte (27-29)

*I may swap out one of the 27-29 players with Aroldis Chapman
**Will, I noticed on your xls that Kluber is OLD but fortunately for me I believe he's turning OLD April 10!

hahah shit. yeah that's the problem, for some reason the list i pulled was sketchy with april birthdays but i don't remember where i pulled the list. felix hernandez was fucked up last year

it's hard to find a list of every baseball player's birthday apparently

One of the main sites, fangraphs or bb ref had an xml file up for grabs, that has most the stats. It's been a few years since I've gone liking for it...

Keuchel (28)
Altuve (25)
Puig (25)
J. Upton (28)
Freeman (26)

soo... will it put anyone out if i move the draft back by an hour (or even 30 mins)?

the commish of my other league just set the draft for 12 on the same day – would prefer not to juggle two simultaneous drafts.

yea no prob

it's an auction draft too, which take a while, so i'll be manning two drafts for a little while no matter what.

could a mod change the start time in the original post to 2pm?

Sorry for not posting yet on this thread or naming my keepers but I'm obviously in this season (and I will obviously win!)

all good, you still have ~ 3 weeks.

Madison Killdozer (name to change soon):

Giancarlo Stanton (26)
Madison Bumgarner (26)
Julio Teherán (25)
Dellin Betances (27)
Khris Davis (28)

oops I forgot I am already Ike and Trea Turner

current thinking re: keepers...

jose abreu
j.d. martinez
george springer
christian yelich
taijuan walker

excellent, i can replace one more set of supposed keepers with "real" ones in willmvorped2016.xls

I'm changing one of my keepers -- you won't believe who it is at #5!

(After comtemplating Buxton vs. Rendon for the past few weeks, I have decided on a third candidate instead. That third candidate is Billy Hamilton, 25!)

also who ain't up 'n' joined yet?

"IwakumaJamaicaAroma" and "Lincecumlords" still have yet to renew their teams. and "Wong Leatherette", Karl Malone's team, won't be renewing.
just sent a mass reminder to sign up (sorry karl – I know you're out)

so – nomar, NoTime – renew!

done

wooo!

Gerrit Cole 25
Buster Posey 29
Chris Archer 27
Kolten Wong 25
Gregory Polanco 24

I have Matheny brain and am leaving off Shelby Miller. :( Going to have to stew on this and read a bunch of idiot fantasy columns.

done. I still have to review my keepers ... hopefully this weekend.

Iwakuma JamaicaAroma (name change possible before opening day) keepers:

Anthony Rizzo (26)
Kyle Seager (28)
Clayton Kershaw (28)
Brandon Finnegan (22)
Jacob deGrom (27)

wow. pick #4 has shocked me!

The main thing is that I needed another 26 or under guy, but he's young and has pitched well in limited opportunities despite getting called up and sent down about five times last year by KC. In Cinci he should have a good shot at a spot in the rotation.

Don't Stop Blyleven keepers:

Manny Machado (23)
Matt Harvey (26)
Kole Calhoun (28)
Carlos Carrasco (28)
Tyson Ross (28)

so, i have just been informed that the draft date is set for easter sunday. is this going to be a problem for anyone?

i just realized i'm going to be away that weekend. :/

saturday the 2nd would be perfect for me but i realize that's the absolute last day for drafts before the season

yikes. would moving the time around at all help your ability to make the draft, or join wherever you'll be at? if not i will send a message about the 2nd.

i might be able to do the draft anyway? i'm going to be on a super mellow four day trip to the desert, but my four yr old might be easter egg hunting at the time we're drafting. maybe if it's moved to 5 PM EST/2 PM PST?

ok. if no one objects here, i will send out a message about pushing it back a little further in a few days.

excellent thanks!

so, i haven't heard any grumbling – i'm change the draft time to 5pm est. i really hope everyone saw the message i sent out.

is there an ilbb mod up in our fantasy league that can change the time in my initial post from 2 to 5?

i'm sorry i am so bad at decisions :/

keeper number five is buxton hamilton rendon

all good. you're keeping pace with the frequency i'm revising the draft time!

Anibal Corpse

Mike Trout (24)
Drew Smyly (26)
Jake Odorizzi (26)
Elvis Andrus (27)
Andrew McCutchen (29)

ok - time has been push back to 5pm est

so when does it flush the system/assign keepers? is it at the draft? i haven't done my rankings in the yahoo system yet

i meant to do it sunday, and i'm just about to hunker down now and take care of it.

so, uh – sanskrit looks like Matt Harvey will be 27 on opening day (late march b-day), which would give you 4 guys in the 27+ dept on opening day. sorry i didn't catch this sooner.

also – still waiting on Francis to submit his picks.

Olney The Lonely:

Sal Perez (25)
Danny Salazar (26)
Chris Sale (27)
Craig Kimbrel (27)
Dee Gordon (28)

Thanks for your patience, Thermo!!

NP. just waiting on sanskrit now.

so – I'm not sure what to do about sanskrit's team. he made an mistake with Harvey's (and also Carrasco's) age which has put him one over how many guys he can have in the 27-29 range and I haven't heard back from him yet. i figure he'd probably drop Ross (28) - but do i take the liberty of guessing who's he prefer in the sub-27 range? i think Soler is the obvious pick, but there's also Castillo and Wood... or do i just leave him with 4 keepers and an extra draft pick?

free agent add of Jett Bandy, what a time to be alive

Sorry Nomar, your trade offer was good but I was thinking about pulling that one all week...

just turned down one hell of a crazy 8-player deal...
I'm surprised, tbh, Harper fetched so little. this is fun tho - our league had gotten quiet for a bit there.

what was the point of the villar deal? villar can't even be kept...

i knew i overreached on my epic eight player deals.

sending you an email. my app didn't let me write a response when i turned it down.

i liked it. but there's a hitch.

Also, to everyone: I won't be able to keep all 3 of Story, Correa and Sano (Bryant and Fernandez aren't going anywhere). let see some dumb trades! (would want pitching and/or 27-29 keeper.

^i am cooking up an insane offer rn

sweet.

question is do i have the stones to even offer it?!

pondering that trade offer...

Welp. Was asking a lot for Story since his production was going to be tough to replace. And now he's no good to me for the rest of the year. If anyone has an open DL slot and wants him as a keeper, hit me up. Will toss him overboard in a few days otherwise.

fuck it indeed!

Only slightly better than Vogt. But I was dropping him anyways, so what the hell.

thermo i came at you with another proposal

It's pretty good. Only thing holding me up is I'd be light in the OF dept after this.

Wow, this trade is wild.

Just crazy enough.

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some intersting names when u sort best performers the past 30 days

dozier
napoli
verlander
justin turner
miggy
votto
scherz
schrimpf
danny duffy
blackmon

Was out of town for the weekend, limited internet access, didn't realize Betts was back. Benched a 3 HR game. Due to another similar error earlier this year I'm pretty sure I benched ANOTHER one of his multi-HR games, meaning due to two days I've missed out on 20% of his homers, lol.

ridic that kershaw is still ranked #1

i'm gunning for that fourth place medal hardcore

i'm going to jinx Will right now and prematurely congratulate him on his eminent victory this year.
way to kick all of our butts!

how dare you :P

IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE SUDDENLY GOING TO DROP 13.5 POINTS OR ANYTHING! WHAT ARE THE ODDS??!?!!

seriously tho, congrats. you killed it this year.

i've lost in september before :/ hopefully i can keep it together tho. it'd take a pretty severe kick in all of my ratios to really fuck me at this point

dammit i'd have given it a better run if aj pollock wasn't crippled until a week ago (and then crippled again), and if my pitchers didn't have awful k/bb ratios (despite having high K rates.)

I was having a decent run before my SP's completely imploded in August. After a good first half I figured I had a good shot at a podium position, but the second half has been an all-time fantasy sports disaster for me. HOMERBAiLi crushed everyone this year.

My place every year:

2016: ???, for a while have been 1st
2015: 3rd, for a long while was 1st
2014: 4th, was maybe briefly 1st
2013: 3rd, was 1st for half the year
2008: 14th lol I don't remember this

The point is: I'm definitely not ready to celebrate, EVER, until it's over

Also every year I've traded solid keepers to win and failed. CarGo in 2013; Baez, Chris Davis, Craig Kimbrel 2014; i guess none in 2015 but yeah... Harper in 2016 better fucking buy me that pennant

i tried that two years ago – the keeper sale – and boy did it blow up in my face. this year it's worked out better, but not worked quite enough.

would be p sweet of would could see the standings plotted out over the season.

man. now i really wish i could look at historical standing for our league over the season. would have been fun to visualize that.

THERMO YOU JINXING SON OF A FUCK I'M ONLY UP 8 POINTS NOW

I BETTER NOT LOSE

having a hard time dropping Jose Fernandez. i shoulda done it last night... but, fuck. i can't believe he's gone.

gonna sound dumb and tone-deaf but there is a "NA" slot you can use.

had the same feeling in my keeper league w/ oscar tavares couple years back.

i could kiss you!

Way to go Will – you mopped the floor with us!
I got sort close and then it was a pretty big gap after that.

I feel like i should photoshop up a trophy for you or something. (but i'm lazy)

it was a lot more of a nail biter than i expected. now that i have won one i can finally CHILL (lol jk never)

Congrats Will, you really mopped the floor with the field this year.

is this happening again this year? would it be possible for me to play? i've been in a league the last couple of years but i don't really know anyone in it and it would be more fun to be competing against relative non-strangers.

oh! yes it is happening again! send me your yahoo email addy and i will invite you when i restart the league in a few days.
we'll figure out how to get you set-up with a new team when i create a new thread and find out if everyone is coming back.

also thank you for reminding me about this.

cool. i sent you a webmail, let me know if that doesn't work